SLOW, SAUCY & SACRED
BERLIN, GERMANY
A Weekend of Exploring Intimacy and Presence through
Deeply Attuned Partner Dance
LOCATION
BERLIN-MITTE
DATE & TIMES
Full Weekend Immersion
Friday – Sunday
Nov. 14-16
(Scroll down for Schedule)
Friday Nov 14th: 6:30 – 9:30pm
- Connecting to Rhythm
- The Magic of Structure
- Potent Subtlety
- Open Dance
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Creating a Magical Container: Community Guidelines & Culture Creation
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Internal and external framework for effective and efficient somatic conversation
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Working with the Microcosmic Orbit and the Sacred Pause: Cultivating pleasure and directing it into the heart
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Shaping Space with Awareness and Physics
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Softening into Surrender – Dips and Deepening Trust
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Jedi Musicality ((or)) Becoming Sound
- Microcosmic Majesty – Sublime Subtlety in Somatic Conversation
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Leading from Humility – Invitation and Following
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Accessing Stillness through Surrender to the Heart, or Being Danced
- Closing Dance
My key take aways from Cocréa are the power of listening, invitation (consent tools), conversational dance, and EMBODIED dance.
My experience at Wren’s Dance Your Medicine retreat was a total initiation.
The energy that Cocrea brings is one of really landing in the intimacy of the dance.
What stands out as one of my biggest takeaways is being able to more deeply feel the awe and wonder of my dance partner.
You are a wizard! You make incredible magic happen between people (individuals and groups). You have x-ray vision right into the heart of what’s needed and then you offer the exact medicine for whatever that thing is and the medicine you share is playful, juicy and sweet, so it’s a joy to receive.
Dance Your Way into the Heart of Presence
This 2.5 day experience will be a deep dive into the magic and intimacy of Micro Dance, where we can saucily play in the slow burn of profound presence.
Is partner dancing an edge for you? Does it make you uncomfortable asking someone to dance? Is the intimacy of dancing closely with someone sometimes overwhelming? YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Lots of people feel that way, especially when just learning or starting to partner dance. Learning something new is humbling. Being close to someone is vulnerable. It’s totally normal to feel out of your comfort zone in partner dance, AND it gets easier! And it can become really fun and satisfying!
Cocréa’s Slow, Saucy and Sacred weekend experience is the perfect place to lean into that edge and gently broaden your comfort zone. You will be in a tight container with other brave humans that encourage and support you in exploring the discomfort, challenges and sometimes awkwardness of partner dance. With over 14 years of facilitation experience under his belt, Wren is highly skilled in teaching you not only the techniques to practice and play with, but also the space, openness and support to fully integrate and embody what you are learning. We offer a holistic model for learning partner dance, presence and attunement that makes it fun, interesting and relevant to the rest of your life and relationships.
You can expect to leave this weekend feeling nourished, surprisingly satisfied, confident and proud of yourself! Whether you ever dance again or not, (and we certainly hope that you will!) you will find this practice and experience extremely beneficial to your overall well-being as an authentically embodied human.
We’ll emphasise how we can notice and move with awareness of our sensual energies as they arise within a dance, and how to hold these energies in their highest possible light. Our sexual energy is the energy of creation, our vital life force. As such, we will be moving in the realm of honouring the sacred in everyone with our dance, and with our touch, by celebrating and owning our pleasure and turn-on for ourselves.
Moving into the sharing and exchanging of that energy can happen when we’ve received the full consent of our partner, and we will set our container with clear agreements as a group as to what feels totally delicious for everyone as far as that type of exchange goes.
Creating a container imbued with safety is my primary interest so that everybody can feel comfortable and excited to be exploring and inviting more pleasure in their dance with the Sacred Other.
Facilitation Team
Wren LaFeet
Lead Facilitator | Embodiment Guide | Cocréa Director & Founder
Wren is an embodiment guide committed to practices that encourage living in right-relationship. A trained dancer, theater worker, mindfulness facilitator and former recovery counselor, Wren shares body-based practices synthesized from social partner dance, mindfulness, Taoism, the Gene Keys, waterways and relating with other humans that support interpersonal connection and positive change.
In 2013, Wren founded Cocréa with co-founder Antje Schaefer, as a vehicle for transformation through exploring mindful, consent based partnered movement as a relational practice. Channeling what he has come to acknowledge as an intelligence that wants the highest possible outcome for humanity, he creates brave spaces for humans seeking a deeper sense of belonging to come home to themselves and the earth through the body.
Wren is a TEDx speaker, featured author in “ReInhabiting the Village”, certified Attunement Therapy practitioner and HeartMath certified trauma sensitive educator. He holds a BA in Drama and Dance and began dancing in 1998 at the height of the swing dance revival. He immediately began fusing dance styles, particularly swing, hip hop and contemporary movement. He began performing in front of audiences at the age of 6 and as a neurospicy human, thrives when channeling his boundless energy, curious mind and empathetic capacity into service to others.
A devotee of the Gene Keys since 2013, he is currently training to become a Gene Keys Guide.
Rachel Rickards
Co-Facilitator | Host
Rachel Rickards is an international leader in the field of personal transformation, intimacy, embodiment, and relational intelligence. She is a masterful group facilitator, event producer, and new mother, who has made a lasting impact through her visionary work.
In 2014, she co-founded Embodied Intimacy, which has since become one of the most respected global organizations offering trainings and events focused on intimacy, trauma healing, relational intelligence, somatic education, and community building.
In 2022, Rachel launched The Field Facilitator Training. This revolutionary experiential learning environment is designed for group facilitators passionate about cultivating deep group-heart coherence and facilitating the emergence of collective group soul. The training equips participants with radically new skills, such as deep listening to the group field, surrendering to the collective moment, and embracing dynamic, fluid leadership to support the unfolding of the group soul.
Most recently, Rachel has become the creator and host of the podcast “In Presence We Trust: The Facilitation Podcast”. Released weekly, the podcast dives into her cutting-edge work in group facilitation and beyond. Tune in to follow her binge-worthy journey and discover the latest insights into her ever-evolving work in group transformation.
Sliding Scale Pricing
Full Weekend: €122-€222
Fri Intro Dance (Included in Full Weekend): €25
We’re doing our best to strut the middle path as a service based business within a financial system that needs radical shift.
In our mission to host creative, community spaces for transformation through joy and connection, we want to meet you where you’re at by letting you choose an exchange rate that feels right for you within a range of options.
Pay what you can afford – what you think is honoring of the value on offer.
IF YOU HAVE FINANCIAL NEED DUE TO SYSTEMIC INEQUITY: please send us a message at the email below. We are happy to give deep discounts to BIPOC community members.
Holding the intention of dancing the change we want to see in the world.
If you would rather,
Register via PayPal:
Send your contribution for Full Weekend
(€122-€222) or Friday Intro only (€25) to:
connect {at} dancecocrea {dot} com